Temple Of The Dog – Temple Of The Dog (2LP Vinyl)
A&M Records (1991 / This Pressing 2024)
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Brand New ~ Sealed! 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl With Gatefold Cover, Insert, Lyrics. Fantastic Reissue Of The Landmark 1991 Album, Expanded To 2 LPs For Premium Audio Fidelity.
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Brand New ~ Sealed! 2LP Set Pressed On 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl!! Heavy Grade Gatefold Sleeve Includes Insert With Lyrics. Fantastic Reissue Of The Landmark, One & Only Album By Temple Of The Dog, Beautifully Remixed By Brendan O’Brien & Expanded To 2 LPs For Premium Audio Fidelity. Side 4 Is Etched With A Picture Of The Band!
Temple Of The Dog came together from the ashes of Mother Love Bone, following the death from a drug overdose of frontman, Andrew Wood. Chris Cornell wrote future TOTD songs “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and “Reach Down” to help process his grief of losing his close friend and roommate, “but the songs didn’t have any destination,” he says. “I was compelled to write them and there they were — written in a vacuum as a tribute to Andy. My thought was that maybe I could record these songs with the remaining members of Mother Love Bone and that maybe we could release them as a tribute.” Mother Love Bone’s Stone Gossard & Jeff Ament began playing with Mike McCready, and they brought in Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron to drum on demos. Guesting on the album is then unknown singer, Eddie Vedder! Because this was a collaboration, and a tribute, there was no commercial expectation for the Temple of the Dog album. It would be, Gossard would later observe, “the easiest and most beautiful record that we’ve ever been involved with.” Adds Cornell: “Temple was about making an album simply for the joy of doing it. We weren’t concerned what anyone outside of our group of friends would think of it. It was the first and maybe only stress-free album that we all made.”
Side 1:
Say Hello 2 Heaven
Reach Down
Side 2:
Hunger Strike
Pushin’ Forward Back
Call Me A Dog
Times Of Trouble
Side 3:
Wooden Jesus
Your Saviour
Four Walled World
All Night Thing
Side 4:
Etched Image
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The album's strength is its mournful, elegiac ballads, but thanks to the band's spontaneous creative energy and appropriately warm sound, it's permeated by a definite, life-affirming aura. Featuring members of Soundgarden and what would soon become Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog's lone eponymous album might never have reached a wide audience if not for Pearl Jam's breakout success a year later. In turn, by providing the first glimpse of Chris Cornell's more straightforward, classic rock-influenced side, Temple of the Dog helped set the stage for Soundgarden's mainstream breakthrough with Superunknown. Nearly every founding member of Pearl Jam appears on Temple of the Dog (including the then-unknown Eddie Vedder), so perhaps it isn't surprising that the record sounds like a bridge between Mother Love Bone's theatrical '70s-rock updates and Pearl Jam's hard-rocking seriousness. What is surprising, though, is that Cornell is the dominant composer, writing the music on seven of the ten tracks (and lyrics on all). Keeping in mind that Soundgarden's previous album was the overblown metallic miasma of Louder Than Love, the accessibly warm, relatively clean sound of Temple of the Dog is somewhat shocking, and its mellower moments are minor revelations in terms of Cornell's songwriting abilities. It isn't just the band, either -- he displays more emotional range than ever before, and his melodies and song structures are (for the most part) pure, vintage hard rock. In fact, it's almost as though he's trying to write in the style of Mother Love Bone -- which makes sense, since Temple of the Dog was a tribute to that band's late singer Andrew Wood. Not every song here is directly connected to Wood; once several specific elegies were recorded, additional material grew quickly out of the group's natural chemistry. As a result, there's a very loose, jam-oriented feel to much of the album, and while it definitely meanders at times, the result is a more immediate emotional impact. The album's strength is its mournful, elegiac ballads, but thanks to the band's spontaneous creative energy and appropriately warm sound, it's permeated by a definite, life-affirming aura. That may seem like a paradox, but consider the adage that funerals are more for the living than the dead; Temple of the Dog shows Wood's associates working through their grief and finding the strength to move on.